This Was the Place to Be in Bournemouth in the 1920s

This was the place to be in Bournemouth in the 1920s

Far from the bustling, often chaotic scenes of today, the Bournemouth of the '20s offered a more genteel yet equally vibrant escape.

Vintage photos show what life looked like in the 1920s

Women at a café in Paris, circa 1920.Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesLife in the 1920s was defined by many cultural, political, and economic developments.Jazz music and flapper fashion defined the era's sound and look.The Harlem Renaissance brought popularity to art created by Black Americans.A century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" was published, capturing the glamor and excess of the Roaring Twenties.But beyond the flapper dresses, b…